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A close-up of an orange electricity cable plugged into a car.

A smiling man stands in a garage next to a car connected to a black charger on the wall.

"It can export to the grid for five hours straight and then continue running the house overnight and still get me to work and back."

A car in a garage is plugged into the wall.

"But I don't think we'll be there by Christmas."

A casually dressed man standing in front of a black wall.

"Therefore there will be terms and conditions on EV charging. We're not all going to charge our EV at 6pm in the evening time."

  • Nissan Leaf
  • Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV)
  • Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross (PHEV)

People stand around a car with all its doors open with a sign in beg letters on the wall behind reading BYD.

  • Kia EV9
  • Polestar 3
  • Cupra Born
  • Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.5 (arriving in Australia in December)

"We probably won't be seeing EVs that are currently on the road being retrofitted to V2G. We're doing our best to see the next generation of EVs being the fleet that does V2G."

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